Biophysical Society Bulletin | November 2020

Annual Meeting

Cryo-EM Subgroup Chair: Charles (Chuck) Sindelar , Yale University, USA.    2021 Program Co-Chairs: Michael Cianfrocco , University of Michigan, USA, and Andres Leschziner , University of California - San Diego, USA. Speakers: Keynote Speaker: Helen Saibil , Birkbeck University of London, United Kingdom Cryo EM of Dynamic Complexes Gira Bhabha , New York University Langone Health, USA Tunnels for Lipid Transport Across the Bacterial Cell Envelope Tristan Croll , Cambridge University, United Kingdom Physics-based Interactive Model Building with ISOLDE Radostin Danev , University of Tokyo, Japan Pushing the Limits of Cryo-EM for G Protein-coupled Receptors Yimo Han , Rice University, USA Monolayer Graphene Grids Enable 2.6-Å Reconstruction of 52-kDa Streptavidin Siew Siew Pang , Monash University, Australia (Presentation title not available) Lori A. Passmore , Cambridge University, United Kingdom Mechanistic Insights into Molecular Machines that Regulate Gene Expression Dimitry Tegunov , Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry - Göttingen, Germany Resolving Protein Dynamics in situ with Deep Learning Lexi Walls , University of Washington, USA Visualizing the SARS-CoV-2 Spike in Complex with Neutraliz- ing Antibodies Sharon G. Wolf , Weizmann Institute, Israel Revealing Mitochondrial Architecture in Vitrified Cells by CryoSTEM Tomography Intrinsically Disordered Proteins Subgroup Chair: Nicolas Fawzi , Brown University, USA. 2021 Program Co-Chairs: Robert Best , National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, NIH, USA, and Alessandro Borgia , St. Jude Children’s Hospital, USA. Speakers: Keynote Speaker, Founder of IDP Subgroup: Keith Dunker , Indiana University, USA On the Evolution of IDRs, IDDs, and IDPs Alexander K. Buell , Technical University of Denmark The Thermodynamics of Misfolding into Amyloid Fibrils

Rosana Collepardo , Cambridge University, United Kingdom Liquid-like Chromatin Organization from Multiscale Modelling Beat Fierz , Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland Dynamic Control Mechanisms of Local Chromatin Access Hagen Hofmann , Weizmann Institute, Israel Allostery through DNA Drives Phenotype Switching Allie Obermeyer , Columbia University, USA Design of Protein-based Complex Coacervates in Cells Anđela Šarić , University College London, United Kingdom Pathways of Amyloid Formation in Solution and on Lipid Membranes Wenwei Zheng , Arizona State University, USA Computational Models for Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins Macromolecular Machines and Assemblies Subgroup Chair: Catherine Musselman , University of Colorado - Anschutz, USA. Speakers: Carlos A. Castañeda , Syracuse University, USA Function and Mechanisms of UBQLN2-mediated Phase Transitions in Protein Quality Control Aaron Hoskins , University of Wisconsin, USA Using Single Molecules to Map the Pathways of Spliceosome Active Site Formation Vignesh Kasinath , University of California - Berkeley, USA Structural Insights into the Regulation of Gene Silencer PRC2 Cheryl Kerfeld , Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, USA Diversity, Structure, Function, Assembly and Engineering of Primitive Protein-Based Organelles: Bacterial Microcompartments Anna-Lena Steckelberg , University of Colorado - Anschutz, USA Viral Manipulation of Translation and RNA Turnover Lovorka Stojic , Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom Long Noncoding RNAs: New Guardians of Genome Integrity During the Cell Cycle Mechanobiology Subgroup Chair: Michael Sheetz , Columbia University, USA.  Speakers: Keynote Speaker: Xavier Trepat , IBEC Barcelona, Spain Mechanical Multitasking: The Forces that Enable Epithelia to Fold, Migrate, Divide and Die

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